What Does Leviticus 5:9 Mean in the King James?
And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it is a sin offering.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Hebrew name for the “sin offering” grows from the root for missing, so the offering carries the very condition it addresses in its name.
THE MEANING
The verse gives the act a precise shape: some blood touches the altar’s side, and the rest drains at its base. The Hebrew name חַטָּאת (chatta’t, “sin offering”) carries the root sense of missing or going wrong, keeping that sense within the name of the rite.
THE ROOT
חַטָּאת
chatta’t
GROWS FROM
חטא
ḥ-ṭ-ʾ
To miss or go wrong.
The offering’s name grows from the root for missing or going wrong, so the rite’s word carries the condition it addresses. The English phrase “sin offering” separates two ideas that Hebrew gathers into one form, חַטָּאת.
ALSO GROWS
chata: To miss or do wrong.
חָטָא
This verb shows the root’s basic sense: the offering is named from the same seed as the act of missing.
chet: Missing, offense.
חֵטְא
This noun names the missing itself, connecting the offering’s name to the condition at the center of the rite.
chatta’t: Sin; in ritual contexts, a sin offering.
חַטָּאת
The same form can name both the missing and the offering, holding the act and its ritual response together.
THE PATTERN
Blood makes covenant and purification visible through concrete placement and contact.
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.THE THREAD
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.The Hebrew חַטָּאתִי (ḥaṭṭāʾtî, “my sin”) comes from חטא, the same root embedded in חַטָּאת (“sin offering”) here. The shared root connects the altar rite to the missing itself, which the psalm names as ever before the speaker.
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